Inventor Matt Denton shows off his robotic spider creatio
A giant-mantis robot with hydraulic legs has been unveiled by a designer who spent four years creating it.
Matt Denton, from Hampshire, estimates his "very expensive toy" has cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds.
He says a mining company and a marine research organisation are now interested in his design and he hopes it might be used at science fairs.
During its development the machine had one outing, at a music festival, where Mr Denton says it was well received.
"It's an entertainment vehicle," he said. "But I hope it will inspire people."
The project was only initially intended to take 12 months, Mr Denton, who usually specialises in small-scale animatronics for the film industry, said.
"After 18 months we tried the model out. We had to completely strip out and rebuild the legs. They were too heavy and complicated.
Animatronics expert Matt Denton says his machine's legs are inefficient "I'm a software and electronics engineer so this was out of my area - I had to learn fast."
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